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Topic: Macchi C-300 (Read 6682 times)

Ok, shame on me. I've been sitting on this info for a long while... it's true my archive is in a pityful shape, the more since I digged unmercily it to extract info for ISP, but this is really, well...Behold the MC-300. It did exists, and it was... a bomber. Subitted by Macchi to the Bombardiere Normale competition of 1938, not accepted in the first round (Prima Soluzione) and accepted but never ordered in the second round (Seconda Soluzione). Relevant data: lenght 14.00 mts, span 22.00 mts, height 4.58 mts, wing surface 55.00 sqmts, empty weight 6,150 kgs, MTOW 9,900 kgs, max speed 502.00 km/h at 5,000 mts, range 2,000 km, weapon load 980 kgs, 5 machine guns (see illustrations for disposition), 2 Alfa Romeo 135 with a nominal power of 1,350 HPs. And so this puts to rest a supposed "mistery", now, on, the next one....

Dear friends,here it is the draw of the Mc.300 bomber!Credit to "Ali Antiche - iussue 117".I dare to suggest to italian readers to subscribe to this nice magazine: http://gavs.it/magazinesBest Regars.Ps. I ask to the moderators if I can share a better quality pic or the entire article.

Actually, the first competition...never was. There were successive spot requests from Regia Aeronautica to individual companies and some unsolicited proposal from individual companies regarding twin boom fighters, both original and derivative. Time span is from mid-1941 to first half of 1943. As for the MC-300, it never existed. The proposed (on exploratory request fro RA) coupled-fuselage derivative of MC-205 didn't even receive a numeral. An MC-301 did exist, but was earlier, and part of the Caccia Combattimento competition of 1938-39